Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914–1934

The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One Explores how the Gothic shaped, and controlled, cultural anxieties about the warProvides a unique critical revision of the figure of the ghost across a wide range of literature from the periodDraws on the Imperial War Museum’s archives (including accounts of the war by less-well-known figures such as Jack Martin and Ronald Skirth)Critically complicates the view of the Gothic as articulating, rather than containing, trau